Data Visualization Posts

Nick Mannon, Director of Data Solutions, attended this year’s Tableau Conference in New Orleans. Hear what the top 10 takeaways are, such as toggle zone visibility, export to PowerPoint, and automatic phone layouts. Plus a few runner ups that are just as exciting! Get the inside scoop on what happened in the “Big Easy” and what’s in store for future Tableau features.

Your wish is Tableau’s command! Finally, Python has been added to Tableau’s space, making it easy to solve any data related problem. In this post, Data Scientist, Jack Dwyer shows you, step by step, how to increase your forecasting accuracy in Tableau using TabPy.

Once upon a time Tableau came out with a Story feature that completely changed the way we look at data visualization. Follow along with Nick Mannon, Director of Data Solutions, as he explains the importance of storytelling, and specifically when and how to tell an effective story in your data visualizations.

We love Tableau for putting data, analysis, visualizations and dashboards into the hands of anyone. Now we love them even more for developing Tableau Prep, giving everyone the ability to perform ETL! Nick Mannon, data management and visualization consultant, reviews what Tableau Prep is, and how you can use it to easily extract, transform, and load your data. This will ensure accurate and clean data so you can spend less time manipulating it, and more time analyzing it!

As a Domo Consulting partner, we’ve seen an increase in executives reaching out to us to get their hands on this fast growing BI technology. In this blog post, Greg Armstrong, Blast’s Senior Business Analyst, outlines his top 5 reasons why executives love Domo, and why you should too!

Playing with a new data visualization tool is fun and exciting at first, but at some point you might want to use it more efficiently. And adding visual analysis to your regular business practices is a worthy effort that can be overwhelming if you don’t have a plan. Find out how to follow our nimble process, called the Cycle of Visual Analytics. By focusing on only a few questions, iterating and learning as you go, you can expect faster, more relevant results.

Many new features were announced at Tableau Conference 2016. Get the inside scoop from one of our resident data visualization and dashboard experts who will provide an overview of his favorite Top 10 new features, and how you can use those features to enhance your visualizations. By the end of this post you’ll be dying to get your hands on the latest and greatest from Tableau.

Data analysts have been waiting a long time for Tableau to add the Holy Grail of functionality, cross database joins. And with Tableau 10 just around the corner, it is on the threshold of arrival. Get ready for a shorter, more simple path to a holistic picture of your data.

Instead of being dependent on IT, you can join data to create reports and visualizations to answer your own questions.